The Notary - Softcover

Rangavis, Alexandros

 
9786185048662: The Notary
Softcover
ISBN 10: 6185048663 ISBN 13: 9786185048662
Verlag: Aiora Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

A wealthy count on his deathbed, his libertine nephew, an upstanding young clerk, and a scheming notary who stops at nothing to protect his daughter make The Notary an iconic tale of suspense and intrigue, love and murder. The classic work of Alexandros Rangavis, The Notary, a mystery set on the island of Cephalonia on the eve of the Greek Revolution of 1821, is Modern Greek literatures contribution to the tradition of early crime fiction, alongside E.T.A. Hoffman, Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins.

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Alexandros Rangavis (18091892) was a Greek man of letters, poet and statesman. Born in Constantinople in 1809 to a Greek Phanariot family, he was raised in Bucharest and Odessa, and attended military school in Munich. Following his return to Greece, Rangavis served at the Ministry of Education, helped organize the founding of the first university of modern Greece in 1834 and was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1856. Rangavis is the author of the first History of Modern Greek Literature (1877). He also wrote numerous plays and novels, and translated Dante, Schiller, Lessing, Goethe and Shakespeare into Greek.

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Verlag
Aiora Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
6185048663
ISBN 13 
9786185048662
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
152
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